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Diocesan Process opens for Founder of Daughters of the Queenship of Mary (DQM) in Thailand
BANGKOK: 15 July 2005 -- The Postulator General, Fr Enrico dal Covolo, accompanied by Fr Cosimo Semeraro, a professor at the UPS, has visited the missionary places where Fr Carlo Della Torre SDB worked, and has viewed the material collected on the heroic life and virtues of the said Salesian founder. He also has met fa number of living witnesses. Fr Della Torre died in 1982.
The visit offered an opportunity to meet with the General Council of the Sisters founded by Fr Della Torre, the Daughters of the Queenship of Mary Immaculate. Finally, he met with the Cardinal of Bangkok, accompanied by the Salesian Provincial, Fr Dheparat, to see to the next moves as part of the diocesan process.
The group is actually a diocesan Secular Institute canoncially erected in 1954. The idea of consecrated secularity is built in to their Constitutions. The specific ministry of the DQM is that of youth ministry in a Salesian style. They have a particular focus within the local Church, marked by their 'Nazareth' spirit of poverty and work, simplicity and joy.
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Diocesan Process opens for Founder of Daughters of the Queenship of Mary (DQM) in Thailand
BANGKOK: 15 July 2005 -- The Postulator General, Fr Enrico dal Covolo, accompanied by Fr Cosimo Semeraro, a professor at the UPS, has visited the missionary places where Fr Carlo Della Torre SDB worked, and has viewed the material collected on the heroic life and virtues of the said Salesian founder. He also has met fa number of living witnesses. Fr Della Torre died in 1982.
The visit offered an opportunity to meet with the General Council of the Sisters founded by Fr Della Torre, the Daughters of the Queenship of Mary Immaculate. Finally, he met with the Cardinal of Bangkok, accompanied by the Salesian Provincial, Fr Dheparat, to see to the next moves as part of the diocesan process.
The group is actually a diocesan Secular Institute canoncially erected in 1954. The idea of consecrated secularity is built in to their Constitutions. The specific ministry of the DQM is that of youth ministry in a Salesian style. They have a particular focus within the local Church, marked by their 'Nazareth' spirit of poverty and work, simplicity and joy.
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